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The negative corollary to these bailouts is that certain institutions have not been allowed to fail, and, those who knowingly took certain risks are no longer expected to take losses when those risks go bad.
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The two companies were implicitly backed by the U.S. government, which in practical terms meant that they would not be allowed to fail.
WSJ: Not Everything Can Be Too Big to Fail
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The biggest banks will not be allowed to fail.
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Mr Diamond also told MPs that he believed that banks should be allowed to fail and not be bailed out by taxpayers.
BBC: Barclays boss grilled over bonus payout
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You have Lehmann Brothers allowed to fail, but not Bank of America.
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Not only did failed banks not cause the Great Depression, had they been allowed to fail nearly 80 years later their demise once again wouldn't have caused long-term economic hardship.
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As everyone knows, the financial crisis of 2008 would not have been nearly so severe if a few financial firms had not become so large and intertwined that if they were allowed to fail they would have dragged the rest down with them, and collapsed the entire U.S. financial system.
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In a country where big firms were rarely allowed by their bankers to fail, investors did not demand higher returns from riskier companies.
ECONOMIST: Slow financial starvation
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All faced not only the collapse of banks that were too big to be allowed to fail, but also the frightening prospect of trying to prop up banks that might have proved (and in Ireland's case were) too big to save.
ECONOMIST: Bank reform
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Billionaire Chen Guangbiao, who is attending the two sessions as a guest, says the one-child policy should be scrapped for university graduates, while those who fail to complete nine years of compulsory schooling should not be allowed to have any children unless they live in remote areas, the newspaper reports.
BBC: China media: Two sessions
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Healthy banks do not want TARP and the troubled banks need TARP to provide capital to stay afloat when they should be allowed to fail.
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